That is an example of overspending; they are replacing a close air support aircraft that costs $11million per unit aircraft with a general purpose aircraft that costs $35million per unit and isn’t as good at close air support.

It's not that I don’t think the military overspends, I they just don’t do it on munitions.

KBR has made over $80 billion of the war on terror, doing things that the DoD could have done for less.

Eh, well it made me think of you.

I do hope there are no hard feelings from our discussion earlier. I don't like getting into pissing fits with other people, especially the explains because I have asked you questions before and I try to mention you when ever I see overly ignorant people.

The "Hurr durr, ded bbis" type of people.

No, it's fine, I'm the horrible type person that argues on the internet as an outlet

Everyone on facebook thinks I'm a huge asshat for how often I debate or discuss my opinions.

I understand where you're coming from. Sometimes I'll start getting into it on FJ then I'll have to take a second and say "Hey, I like these people. Why am I doing this?"

Debating somebody does not mean you dislike them, rather it demonstrates that you respect them enough to listen to their ideas and present yours to them.
I can think your opinion is wrong or uninformed without thinking less of you. If you think I’m wrong I’m not going to get very upset about it.
If you prove somebody wrong By that I mean if you give them information that changes their view on the subject you’ve improved a small part of the world, if you are proven wrong you have a chance to improve yourself.

I wish I could thumb your response,

Same uniforms as everyone else, except they have army corps of engineers branch insignia.

The navy has a naval construction battalion, aka the Sea Beas, they wear the same uniform, but their ratings are worked into their rank insignia.

IDK about the RAF royal air force?

Yeah, royal air force, but I just realised the stupidity in asking you. I'm looking for the Royal services uniforms, but you know the American equivalent. Dammit.

www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/ap1358.cfm

This should help you out, it's I think the RAF dress uniform regulation AP 1358

Aww man, that all looks dull as **** . I wanna wear something loose, like the combat uniform. Not that long sleeve woolly **** .

They dont wear their dress uniform all the time

So, what's that for? Because I thought colour determined the forces you were in. Like, that's combat terrain coloured, so it's army uniform? Or would other forces wear something like that? I only wanna know because I wanted to be an engineer on the carriers, and I don't know what they'd wear, but I should imagine it would be loose fitting and not all "dress" like. I'll happily dress formally for when the event calls, but I'm not wearing ******* ironed shirts all the time.

Man, all these British questions, but I'm trying. That is the RAF ground uniform, for general duty purposes and ground crews. Yes, different branches have different uniforms, and specific jobs wear different uniforms, but they aren’t drastically different and most are situational.

Here is a link to the Royal Navy uniform regulation
www.rm-badges.com/images/Dress%20Regulations%20RN%20Feb%202013.pdf
The pictures of uniforms start on page 14



If you cant see yourself wearing an ironed shirt, the military may not be for you.

you iron your socks

White overalls? **** , I'm in. Also, who doesn't love ironed socks? Ironed and tumbledried socks are so comfy and warm.

Hang on, lemme check...

Cybercom wasn’t a thing when I was in, I have an idea what they do, we us to just depend on other agencies for that function.

I'm going to say they do the same thing I did and cyber people over irc.

Well, it's ******* hard. Did your recruiter give you a manual? There is some sort of handbook that outlines everything you need to do to pass. Also, if you fail selection you become an 11B and you would have to go to basic training again.

They haven't given me anything but a packet to apply for a secret clearance.
I mean, everyone said Marine Corps bootcamp was ******* hard, but it wasn't that bad. How tough can 18x be?

www.sorbrecruiting.com/Text/SELECTED_EBOOK.pdf

As hard as boot camp is, it's designed to build you up and pass you, you gradually do harder and harder **** . Selection is designed to fail 90% of people. 21 mile ruck marches, 3 day solo landnav courses where they send attack dogs after you, tasks like “carry this 20 gallons of fuel 10 miles”, they will let you die if you dont ask for help. They intentionally sign too many people up, then make everyone do PT till enough people quit.

I know many people that went to selection, and I only know one that passed, he built himself up to run 20 miles a day, not masturbating or having sex for 6 months, and 2 large pizzas in addition to his 3 meals a day from the chow hall.

He said what helped him survive selection was hatred.

I met another guy who washed out after selection, he said he conditioned with a 100lb ruck for 9 months to pass.

Goddamn, I need to step up my routine, then.

There is some TM out there that outlines what you need to do, like point by point "if you do this you will pass" stuff, your recruiter should have one of those for you.

I'll ask for it the next time I see him, thanks.

Personal experiences may vary.

After two years of smoking and getting fat, I may just end up being specialist Pyle.

From experience, being a specialist is AWESOME

I got to beat stupid privates.

I know it's awesome. That's why I'm signing up. The Marine Corps would demote me back to lance and then phase me out as an eight year corporal, so the Army's the only viable option for me and the only thing they're offering to prior service is 18x, so it's either get through this or nothing.

But SF ranks start out at sgt. Like, when you go to selection you default to e5 pay.

Ah, but they told me I'd go in as an e-4.

Well, yeah, but once you go to selection you start out as an e5, they do it so nobody can lock up some SF soldier at parade rest for no reason. All their ranks are one higher than the regular army. So a SF company is lead by a major, while an army company is lead by a cpt.

Sweet. That means that if I get through the tough **** , I can get bah sooner than I thought.

Pew pew

Pew pew pew

That kid's recruiter made a mistake.

Most people don't acknowledge the fact that Gunnery Sergeant Hartman showed him plenty of encouragement.

He even paired him up with a permanent battlebuddy to make sure he got his **** straight. You know what my DIs did to the ******* in our platoon? Four or five of us got in his face and screamed at him for half an hour, he got constantly ITed, and when he gave up he had to say "My master plan is working" (which was ******* hilarious), as if it was his master plan to make the other recruits work harder.

As for me I haven't been to boot yet, I'm a poolee and joined in the DEP so I have a bit of a longer wait. Pretty sure I've talked to you before so if you remember maybe you already knew that.

Some people say it's easy, some say it's hard, but either way I can't wait for the challenge.

Yeah, I remember talking to you.
You'd better open your anus wide for that green ween.

Really, the news didnt know about who did it till the next day. You can debunk all of these points with some google, but I'm not going to spend the effort on an anon

Black ops refers to black budget operations, where congress and the american people know the money is being spent on something but the details on the reports are blacked out.

First, you join the military, then you pass special forces selection and you are in the elite club, but those guys aren't black ops. You have to earn the respect of the best and be recognized as one of them, then if the top teams pick you up you will go on operations with them. Some of those operations will be "black ops"

love you too buddy

Yeah, I know

I will never quit. It's part of my creed.

goddammit anon, are you the same as the first two?

Duh, because exercise is hard.

the OP deleted the content, it was the post about military dogs getting titanium teeth and I remembered the last time it got posted people said it was fake.

Yeah, no. That's fake... Maybe. You gotta remember, DARPA figured out a way to weaponize dolphins and sea lions I wouldnt doubt that there was a program to do something like that at some point, but surgical implanted teeth for dogs is really impractical.

For the most part, military dogs are really just normal dogs trained to do military crap, kindof like police dogs, but mostly they aren't trained to find narcotics unless they are in a MP unit that looks for that sort of thing.

Thanks man, it actually means something to me.

I thought it would be hard to reup right now, what MOS are you?

I'm going to change this time and go for either 89D or 91F. Explosive Ordinance Disposal seems fun though.

EOD gets all the babes, but I hear you have to pass a PT test in your EOD suit.

I can do it.

Maybe

Nice. Thank you.

OP always delivers subscribe?

No thank

Nice. I can respect a man who lives up to his obligations.

I can respect a man who serves or has served his country.

Wow, Thanks man.

What's happening?

Not much, man, not much. You?

Oh, you know. Chilling.

I was folding cloths last night, and I thought to myself, "Self, you always fold and hang your cloths army style, you cant even remember how to fold them regular. You should make a tutorial for retards who want to join the army." Then I thought, "Good point, self, folding and hanging cloths is really important for the first 9 weeks."

>Make a video
>get hella thumbs

I have 2 methods for folding.
1: Get a plastic clothes folder.
2. Use the "Super Secret" technique.

The army makes you roll everything then somehow fold it so it stays rolled and compact.
"Roll that shirt up, make it look like a brown little **** , private. Make those shocks look like little green ***** , private."